Do you want to read some of the world’s best science blogging from 2010… and a blogpost by me? If so, click here right now to buy your paperback or e-book copy of Open Laboratory 2010, which claims to be “The Best of Science Writing on the Web”. Open Lab 2010 includes 50 blogposts, 6 poems and one cartoon […]

The first paragraph sucks. It was building on a throwaway comment/discussion… but it sucks. It’s going to get changed as soon as I’m not doing three things simultaneously, which may be early tomorrow UK time – but will happen!

Then I realised I couldn’t write for a science magazine about the joy of multicoloured swimsuits because the average reader is a bloke. Because no bloke wants to think about women in bikinis. (In other words, I bet one could write that story for a magazine marketed to Manly Men, but the objectification issues and […]

Rebecca has got tonnes of praise outside of science communication types. But – when I went to Science Online 2011 – I felt no one mentioned her much. There was lots of discussion about good science writing. But I felt no one discussed why the Henrietta Lacks book is so amazing or used it as […]

Hello. It’s Outdoor Science here. No, not the blogger. The blog itself. I, as a blog, want the answer to that age-old question… Am I good-looking? My blogger, Vivienne, is moderating a session at Science Online 2011 – a conference about science and the web – later this month. The session is about writing blogposts for a […]

I should have added ‘interesting/informative/provocative’ for the public Funding bodies are – I understand – increasingly wanting scientists to do public outreach. But, crucially, a fair few people believe scientists shouldn’t be forced to do outreach. Some scientists are better at outreach than others and the core of a scientist’s work is…[Read more]